Book Clubs Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/book-clubs/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:43:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Book Clubs Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/book-clubs/ 32 32 38398750 Daughters of the Sun and Moon https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/10/daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/10/daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon/#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:27:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19839 Three young Chinese women find themselves brought together in the earliest days of the city we know as Los Angeles. Petal, Moon, and Dove are the central characters in Lisa See’s Daughters of the Sun and Moon. In 1870, Dove arrives as the second wife of an older Chinese merchant, while Petal’s desperate family has sold […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/10/daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon/feed/ 0 19839 A Psalm for the Wild-Built https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/09/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/09/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built/#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:25:44 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19817 If anyone had told me I would fall in love with a tiny book about a robot and a monk I would have asked if this was the beginning of a bar joke. It’s not and I have my neighborhood book club to thank for leading me to A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a science […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/09/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built/feed/ 0 19817 The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/09/the-pirate-queen-by-ariel-lawhon/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/09/the-pirate-queen-by-ariel-lawhon/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:49:00 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19809 Hello, fall! It may not be here officially, but in the book world this week is one of the busiest for new releases. And this year looks to be huge with fall novels coming from popular authors like Hernan Diaz, Barbara Kingsolver, Jodi Picoult, Elin Hilderbrand, Emily St. John-Mandel, Bonnie Garmus, and Kate Atkinson. I’m […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/09/the-pirate-queen-by-ariel-lawhon/feed/ 2 19809 The Top of the World by Ethan Joella https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/the-top-of-the-world-by-ethan-joella/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/the-top-of-the-world-by-ethan-joella/#respond Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:29:35 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19776 When Maggie’s older brother, Chip disappears for the summer after the end of his senior year in high school it’s a big deal. Because it’s probably the last summer he’ll ever have and she and her parents are left alone and wondering if they’ll ever see him again. They do, but he never says anything […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/the-top-of-the-world-by-ethan-joella/feed/ 0 19776 City of Widows https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/city-of-widows/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/city-of-widows/#respond Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:30:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19765 Nadia Hashimi’s novel, City of Widows is set in Kabul in 2021 as America is in the final stages of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Despite all the promises made by the Taliban to honor the changes made in the country they are already targeting women for harassment and are arresting and/or killing anyone who […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/city-of-widows/feed/ 0 19765 This Book Made Me Think of You https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/this-book-made-me-think-of-you/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/this-book-made-me-think-of-you/#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:53:52 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19757 Sometimes I have to stop being a critic and simply lean into what I’m reading. Such was the case with This Book Made Me Think of You. A trusted friend recommended it so I decided to give it a try, despite knowing it was a full-on romance. Period. If you don’t know what means: a […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/08/this-book-made-me-think-of-you/feed/ 0 19757 A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/a-hymn-to-life-shame-has-to-change-sides-by-gisele-pelicot/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/a-hymn-to-life-shame-has-to-change-sides-by-gisele-pelicot/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:27 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19714 Gisèle Pelicot is the French woman whose husband of 50 years spent the last decade drugging and raping her and inviting strangers to repeatedly do the same while he recorded it. All of which she recounts in her memoir A Hymn to Life because this woman, who survived years of degradation and brutality without any memory […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/a-hymn-to-life-shame-has-to-change-sides-by-gisele-pelicot/feed/ 0 19714 Land by Maggie O’Farrell https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/land-by-maggie-ofarrell/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/land-by-maggie-ofarrell/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:03:09 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19707 One family and a country wiped out by famine are the heart and soul of Land, Maggie O’Farrell’s sweeping new novel. The lives of Tomás, Phina, and their children, Liam, Enda, Rose, and Eugene play out on the page with all the verdant vibrancy of the land they love. It’s a decade after the Great […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/07/land-by-maggie-ofarrell/feed/ 2 19707 Whistler by Ann Patchett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/06/whistler-by-ann-patchett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/06/whistler-by-ann-patchett/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:16:16 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19673 What begins as offhanded teasing between a wife and husband turns into a momentous occasion that unfolds across the pages and years in Ann Patchett’s exquisite new novel, Whistler. Daphne and her husband are at the Metropolitan Museum when they notice an elderly gentleman following them. Jonathon jokes that he’s staring at Daphne, and it […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/06/whistler-by-ann-patchett/feed/ 8 19673 Ruins by Lily Brooks-Dalton https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/06/ruins-by-lily-brooks-dalton/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/06/ruins-by-lily-brooks-dalton/#respond Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:14:37 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19658 What if there was another advanced civilization on Earth, older than ours, that has remained undiscovered?  Ember is an archeologist who believes this to be true and has spent her life trying to find proof of this pre-historic society. In Ruins, after years languishing in academia, she finally receives an artifact from a colleague supporting […]

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